Related%20passage for Eruvin 12:8

אמר רב כהנא הנך מגופות הואי

He replied: Come and see the [alley] gateways of Nehardea<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nehardea was a town on the Euphrates, situated at its junction with the Royal Canal about seventy miles north of Sura, and famous for its great academy in the days of Samuel, which was rivalled only by that of Sura. Nehardea also had the characteristics of a public domain (v. supra p. 32, n. 14) .');">¹⁹</span> which are half buried in the ground<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'hidden unto their half in earth', and cannot possibly be moved from their open positions.');">²⁰</span> and Mar Samuel continually passes through<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and goes in and goes out'. I.e., and saw that the gates were not closing, whilst the people were relying on them as providing an 'erub.');">²¹</span>

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